Recommend - A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> Can I recommend a book to everyone? If you are looking for something
> interesting to read, I HIGHLY recommend 'A Confereracy of Dunces' by
> John Kennedy Toole.
> 
> This book is hysterically LAUGH OUT LOUD funny. It won  a Pulitzer
> Prize for comedy. And, you know they don't just hand out Pulitzer
> Prizes like peanuts at a ball game. 
> > 
> Set in New Orleans, it is the most unlikely collection of oddballs 
and
> misfits to ever grace the written page.
> 
> The main character is the hyper-intellectual, slovenly, slothful
> self-prcalimed savior of the modern world, who demands that the 
world
> conform to his view of decency and geometry. A man out of place, out
> of time, and thoroughly out of his cake eating, Dr. Nut drinking,
> ranting raving mind. Meet Mr. Ignatius J. Reilly.
> 

I read A Confederacy of Dunces years ago (late 1980s?) based on my 
dad's recommendation. I grew up in New Orleans and let me tell you, I 
have *known* people like Ignatius J. Reilly and some of the other 
characters. And of course being a "Yat" (native New Orleanian) 
myself, I recognized all the landmarks in the book, which made it 
even funnier to me. Yes, I laughed out loud many times reading this 
book. I also recommend it highly. 

Anne U
(imagining what Snape or Professor McGonagall might think of 
Ignatius... oh dear...)